In the 2017 Cannes movie room, "Good Times" can be said to be a big outlier. The budding Safdie brothers co-directed, the older brother also participated in writing the script, and the younger brother acted in person. It can be seen that Nen Niu Wufang Pattinson is determined to get rid of the label of handsome young boy and dresses up as a gangster with a big beard and messy hair, but he has to be said that he is handsome, and the light in his eyes is sharper than when he was a youth idol.
The movie is the story of a pair of white brothers whose names seem to be of Greek origin. The younger brother is a little behind in intelligence, but the older brother is very clever; the two cooperated to rob the bank, and because they were too greedy, the money bag was stuffed with dye; when they escaped, the younger brother hit the glass door and was arrested; trouble.
The audio-visual effects of the movie are very eye-catching, with double psychedelics under neon colors and electronic sounds, such as trance under drugs and psychedelics. Under the visual psychedelic, the story itself is somewhat casual, from the perspective of a white gangster, going through a long period of crime, escape, and rescue. He took his younger brother to robbery boldly and stabilized the scene, but because he insisted on going his own way, he gave the cashier an opportunity; he was adaptable in the hospital and boldly rescued his younger brother, but found the wrong person; when he went to the playground to find drugs and banknotes, he was able to knock down the security guard, And calmly pretended to be a security guard, but let the little girl who helped him be taken away, although he didn't seem to regret it. In the final analysis, it was still the organ that counted, and was taken down by the police. "Some people are born surrounded by long nights." The harder they try to get rid of the quagmire at the bottom, the more deeply they fall into it. "Going through fire and water" is also a robbery by two brothers. Ben Foster can still sigh "I am the king of the wilderness", which is still a bit tragic, but Pattinson can only look back reluctantly and witness how another helpless person fell. After Pattinson doesn't have to be simply handsome, it can be said that he is full of charm, can withstand so many close-ups, and performs better than "The Lost City of Z" (perhaps because it is adapted to his bearded shape).
Ben Safdie, who plays the younger brother, is also very good, and he plays the younger brother with a bad brain. This character may have a glimpse into the lives of disabled people, and there are good people to help and guide them, but they still have to suffer from poverty, crime and violence. The movie ends with him, watching him slowly integrate into the game directed by the social worker, maybe that's where he belongs.
There's a line that makes me want to laugh: The little black girl asks Pattinson if she's hungry, there's chicken nuggets at home. The first reaction is, isn't this racist? At present, when the contradictions and conflicts that have been deposited for many years have not been eased, watermelon and fried chicken can cause controversy. But in a movie where drugs and violence are unabashed, when hopeless people are overwhelmed by reality, who cares what offense is mere fried chicken? They just want to have a good time, as the queen sings "Don't make me stop."
"Good Times" is stylistically similar to last year's "Neon Demon" at Cannes. NWR rips off the glossy appearance of the fashion industry with dazzling "art for the future", while "Good Times" confronts the ugliness, hopelessness and hope of the lower society. In terms of theme, it is similar to "Walking Through Fire and Water", the difference is that the pair is tragic and the pair are helpless, but they have found their own belonging. "The thrill hit my body, and I suddenly felt that I was the son of Jesus." Although Pattinson's brother claimed to be immune to narcotics, he spent a drug-like psychedelic moment in the night of New York. The vision of the future is a fantasy after all. Tonight, I can only spend a short good time "with dreams, drugs, and lucid nightmares".
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